April first falls on a Tuesday next year. The following Tuesday is Microsoft's monthly security update. It will be the last monthly security update for the Windows XP operating system. About one third of the computers with Windows operating systems on the Internet today are still running Windows XP, an operating system almost 15 years old. After the April 2014 update, issues with Windows XP will no longer be patched; Windows XP users should have already migrated to a more current Windows version. So with that we present, David Netterman's Top Ten Security Related Reasons Why You Should Upgrade Your Computer's Old Operating System:
And the number one security related reason why you should upgrade your computer's old operating system:
All joking aside, unpatched machines are the major contributor to spam and bot-net related Internet security issues, it is incumbent on each of us as Internet users to take the responsibility for our own machines, keeping them patched and not participating in the worst features of the connected world.
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